Category Archives: Meetings

A little over a week ago, I attended Sud Web, a regional conference for people who work in Web site development: front- and back-end developers, designers, project leaders, consultants, educators, etc. The language is French and the audience comes mainly...More…

Every year, since 2006, the W3C Spain Office organizes W3C Day in Spain, an event on Web standards for the Spanish community. The 2012 edition, held in Granada, Andalusia, gathered together over 200 people for a couple of days. W3C Members are the protagonists of the event. All of them are invited to share their professional experiences, challenges, and thoughts taking part either in panels or giving talks. As in previous years, the event served as a forum to discuss common topics regarding standards, and Web technologies in general. The Open Web Platform was the cornerstone of the conference, complemented with a recurrent and interesting subject: Open Government Data, which is in the limelight at all levels of the Spanish public administration.More…

(This blog should have gone out about a week ago. By an unlucky clashes in my agenda, the trip to Mountain View was immediately followed by another trip, which made it difficult to publish this in a really timely...More…

W3C met in Lyon, France 1-5 November for an annual W3C gathering we call "TPAC" (for Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee, pronounced "T-pack"). This was my first TPAC. Based on what I saw and what I heard it was a...More…

The very recent announcements from Microsoft (“The Future of the Web is HTML5”), Apple (“We are betting big on HTML5”) and Google (“New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs...More…

The WWW2010 conference that just took place in Raleigh is now over and it's a good time to report on some of the outcomes from the event, and most specifically about the W3C track that I had the pleasure...More…

For those of you who will be in Cambridge, MA on March 27, a few of us will be giving several presentations around HTML 5, CSS 3, and SVG in the morning. We'll have a hands-on session in the afternoon.More…

As I announced a few weeks ago, the RDF Next Steps Workshop will take place at NCBO, in Standford, US. A separate page has now been published on the details of the location, especially on hotels. Let me also use...More…

At this year's 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010 - Raleigh, NC, USA), W3C will organize two "camps": the "HTML 5 camp" and the "Linked Open Data (LOD) camp" (29 and 30 April 2010). The "camp" format of the...More…

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